01-18-2017, 03:53 PM
(01-18-2017, 03:47 PM)3wt Wrote: 4 players out of 53 lost their stuff (don't forget Peko coming on to the field). You can't get rid of Burfict, he 's just too good, and when it comes to playing he IS mentally tough. And honestly Burfict's play was an NFL play, not the dirty play everyone makes it out to be. You see that play several times every Sunday in the NFL.
The other 3 players, you have to question the cost/ benefit going forward. But other than that the team played very mentally tough football that game to essentially have the game won without your starting QB.
But I agree with Harrison. We have a long history of not having mentally tough players. Draft them smart and tough over athletic and upside and you're more liable to win the close games and the big games.
Needs to be a focus.
Fire the coach then. He lost control of the team.
Remember when we were a playoff team years ago and in the game Palmer got hurt in, supposedly Chad Johnson punched Marvin and had the receivers coach Hue Jackson in a headlock in the locker room. Marvin lost control of that team and we suffered on the field for several years afterwards.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/rumors/post/Chad-Johnson-punched-Marvin-Lewis-in-2006-playof?urn=nfl%2C70592
